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I'm sure this must exist, but I can't find anything anywhere that does this. What I want is some online service that provides an email address I can send an email to, and guarantee that it will always bounce.
The reason I want this is to test the bounce-handling functionality of a piece of software. Obviously I can use some kind of valid address that I know doesn't exist, but that doesn't seem like good practice, even though this is only for a one-off test, not something that will be automated (at least not yet).
Ideally, I'm looking for something like Mailinator, but where I can send messages, see them pending, and choose whether to bounce them, and what type of bounce.
Google did turn up this address [email protected], but as far as I can tell, it's no longer bouncing messages, because when I try it I'm not getting anything back.
Any suggestions?
EDIT As per John's post below, the service seems to be working again - tested on 30th September 2016 from Gmail, and got a bounce response within 5 minutes.
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Try sending an email to the "Undeliverable" email address again. If the address keeps bouncing, you should remove it from your lists. If possible, get in touch with the contact to see if they have a new email address.
Does Mailchimp manage bounces? Yes. After you send an email campaign with Mailchimp, we track its delivery and clean bounced addresses from your audience. Email campaigns won't be sent to those addresses anymore, but you'll still be able to access them if you need to.
How do you know if an email is bounced? Typically, if an email has bounced, you'll see the following: A message ID that's unique to your email send. The date and time that the email bounced.
We have a bounce test email which we recommend to our customers and anyone is free to use it.
It just replies back:
:fail: No such person at this address.
The email is: [email protected]
We have it listed in our documentation for our newsletter plugin for WordPress: http://tribulant.com/docs/wordpress-mailing-list-plugin/382#doc1
Hopefully someone will find this useful since there doesn't seem to be any easy way of testing bounces like this specifically.
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I use [email protected] for AWS SES.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/mailbox-simulator.html
From the above page:
"You can only access the mailbox simulator by using Amazon SES. You cannot access it from an external mail server."
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It's worth noting that [email protected] bounces, with a 'no such user'. To verify (even though the likelyhood was low), I attempted to create an account in gmail as [email protected], and it failed stating it was already taken. So clearly google has reserved the address, and the only use it could possibly have is to generate bounces.
Even though - as of 07mar2019 - the [email protected] still works, [email protected] is also a fair alternative.
Curiously, [email protected] delivered. Whether there's a human on the other end is a question yet to be answered...
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I work over at SocketLabs. First, I apologize that we are seeing this message so late. I just wanted to stop in and provide some follow-up on this issue for anyone who is still interested.
The SocketLabs bounce email address is working. I tested it on Friday, September 23, 2016 and successfully received a bounced message.
The address is [email protected]
I would suggest trying again. Or contacting support. Our support team is very responsive and friendly. Here's a link to reach the support staff. https://support.socketlabs.com/
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http://www.socketlabs.com/blog/bounce-and-feedback-loop-test-addresses/
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